Re: lynx-dev Problem with parameters sent in Lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 04:10:45PM +0100, Peter Rasmussen wrote:
> On Sun Dec 29 15:07:03 2002 David Woolley <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> <A HREF="list_one_subject.cgi?397795902 000 DVD_1043951012 00000 
> >> list_subjects.cgi">DVD All Zones</A>
> >
> >This link is malformed.
> >
> OK, I accept that, but then why is Lynx the only browser that can't/doesn't
> deal with it?

not the only one (Netscape 4.76 doesn't appear to escape the spaces).
I also tried w3m, which does escape them.  As David said, this is a
matter of error recovery.  The remote site is free to discard the
unescaped spaces, which may not be what you intended.  To make it
unambiguous, we should escape them also.

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Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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